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Reading the Election Results
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Subject: | Arithmetic, Statistics
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Grade: | 3-5, 6-8, 9-12
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Brief Description
Students read and interpret a chart that shows the results of the 2000 presidential election.
Objectives
Students use the final election results chart to respond to teacher-created questions.
Keywords
chart, election, study skills
Materials Needed
copies of teacher-created questions, pencils, computers with Internet access or printouts of the results from the Web resource listed in the Lesson Plan section below
Lesson Plan
Use the chart at Presidential Votes by State to create a list of grade-appropriate questions about the 2000 presidential election. (For example: Who got the most votes in the state of Massachusetts? By how many votes did George W. Bush win in the state of Arkansas?). Ask students to use the chart to learn the answers to the questions.
Assessment
Students correctly answer at least seven of ten questions.
Lesson Plan Source
Education World
Submitted By
Gary Hopkins
National Standards
Social Sciences:
NSS-C.K-4.2
NSS-C.K-4.5
NSS-C.5-8.1
NSS-C.5-8.5
NSS-C.9-12.1
NSS-C.9-12.5
Mathematics:
NM.K-4.1
NM.K-4.2
NM.K-4.4
NM-K-4.8
NM.5-8.1
NM.5-8.2
NM.5-8.3
NM.5-8.4
NM.5-8.7
NM.5-8.10
NM.9-12.1
NM.9-12.2
NM.9-12.4
NM.9-12.10
Originally published 08/14/2000
Links last updated 08/16/2004
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